Is There a Name for Active Driving Assistance?

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The label of active driving assistance was almost forced on us. I would have been way happier to not give the combination of those two features active simultaneously a specific name. Alex, what's your opinion on like, how do you even try to assess performance? Or how do you tell people and communicate the idea that this has nothing to do with performance?

Consumer Reports vehicle technology maven and friend of the show Kelly Funkhouser returns to discuss CR's new rankings for active driver assistance systems, the class of systems pioneered by Tesla Autopilot. Kelly explains why the ranking emphasizes collaborative and driver monitoring features over automation, how critical these elements are to the safety of such systems, where her work ranking them will go from here, and much more.